THE SPIRIT SCIENCE: “The 6 Kinds of Psychic Ability: Which One Is Your Most Prominent?”

Do you ever wonder how some people just seem to ‘get it?’ Perhaps they seem to ‘know’ things that would be impossible to know or even predict the future. Chances are, they’ve harnessed their inner extra-sensory talents.

If you find yourself wanting to develop your own goddess-given intuitions, a good starting point is first knowing the types of main psychic capabilities. Perhaps you will discover that you are already receiving these gifts!

The six main types of intuitive skills we will explore here, called the clairs (French = ‘clear’), are all about sensing and receiving spiritual information. They are related to the five physical senses, and you may find that you are most in tune with the psychic abilities that are associated with your most vivid physical senses. For example, if your eyesight is particularly keen, you may find that you are naturally clairvoyant.

With some practice, anyone can tune into their natural psychic abilities! Here are the six major types:

Clairvoyance – Seeing

Perhaps the most well known, and least understood, psychic talent is clear-seeing.

More often than not, the sense of clairvoyance isn’t so dramatic as it is portrayed in film or other media.

Someone who is clairvoyant does not necessarily have clear visions or ‘see’ the future. The power is more subtle than that.

You may just get an idea of a particular symbol, number or color in your head. You’re ‘seeing’ it, but you may not understand what the vision is trying to tell you.

Not all things you see physically are meant to be taken literally. However, if the ability is strong within you, you may get to the point where you literally “see it coming.”

Clairaudience – Hearing

It may ‘sound’ strange, but those who are clairaudient can ‘hear’ messages that are beyond the realm of the physical ears.

We’re talking about phenomena that most people are unable to hear, such as psychic sounds, voices, music, etc.

Sometimes, it’s even as dramatic as an ‘inner voice’ that gives you a specific command, like to go somewhere, move in a specific direction, or even stop what you’re doing completely.

Clairaudient mediums are those who can receive messages from entities who have passed on to a different plane, such as ancestors or deceased loved ones.

Clairsentience – Feeling

We will sometimes call someone who is very sensitive to the feelings of others an ‘empath.’ Simply put, these people have a very honed clairsentience. This is the ability to intuit physical sensations, feelings, or emotions. Empathy is just one form of it.

Some who are clairsentient may even be withdrawn or outcasts from society and not even know why.

They may struggle to be around people because they feel everything so much, leaving them overwhelmed, anxious and exhausted. Once in awhile, we all feel drained from being around people who are ‘down,’ or feel the energy of someone who is excited. This is our inner clairsentience.

When your clairsentience is strong, you may even get feelings about others, such as when someone is lying or even physically ill. You may simply ‘feel’ it.

Claircognizance – Knowing

You may not have learned the facts or logic behind a concept, but you may just naturally know it anyway.

This inner knowing is called claircognizance.

Sometimes it’s as simple as mistrusting someone. Once in awhile it’s as dramatic as knowing not to get in a person’s car they end up crashing.

Obviously, homing your inner knowledge can carry some powerful import. When you’ve done this, random intuitive thoughts will sometimes just come into your head.

Clairgustance – Tasting

Sometimes we have that funny taste in our mouths. This is often clairgustance, inner tasting.

One simple example is that you may ‘taste’ cake while getting ready for work, then go to work and find out that someone had a birthday to celebrate and a cake was brought to celebrate.

Mediums who have an amplified clairgustance can often taste the types of food that were formerly favored by the spirit with whom they are communicating.

Clairgustance also puts a different spin on dieting! Think if you could just taste all the naughty foods you love without actually ingesting them.

Clairsalience – Smelling

The last psychic capability we will explore today is intuitive smelling.

Sometimes we just get a strong sense in our psychic noses, such as a whiff of a meadow full of flowers, which we actually pass by physically at some point in our day.

Mediums with a strong sense of clairalience will sometimes get a strong sense of the passed one’s favorite perfume, which family members oftentimes find very comforting.

The sense of smell is powerfully associated with memory, and if we strengthen this skill of psychic smelling we can become very powerful beings in ways we don’t normally think about when we’re talking about these abilities.

Are there any senses on this list that you relate to? Share what they are and how you made them stronger within yourself!

JANE MEGGITT: “Ways Cats Understand Physics”

Of course, if you play with your cat, you already know he understands string theory…

The Kyoko University study may win an award for the most adorable science project ever, as much of it consists of videotaped cat reactions. While the study proved that cats have an elemental understanding of physics and cause and effect, it also showed that cats score well in the common sense department. It’s not easy to fool a cat… unless you’re using a laser toy.

The experiment

Researchers showed 30 cats “either an object dropping out of an opaque container” or nothing dropping out when the containers were turned over. First, scientists shook the containers with objects to produce a rattling sound, but also shook the empty containers which didn’t produce noise. The felines then were allowed to roam around and explore the area where the experiment was conducted. Fifteen — or half — of the cats “actively explored” containers with an object that made noise in them. Just 10 cats explored the “no object and no sound” containers.

The results showed that cats looked at the container longer when there was noise than when there wasn’t — an action known as “preferential looking.” They also peered longer when an “incongruent” event occurred — such as an object dropping out of a container that didn’t make a noise, or no object dropping out of one that did rattle.

The researchers concluded the result “suggests that cats inferred the existence (or absence) of the object based on the rattling sound (or no sound) and predicted the appearance of the object (or not), applying a physical rule.” They surmised this reflects natural feline hunting ability, as they must often discover the location of prey solely by sound. Since cats are basically nocturnal — although as any cat lover knows, they sleep day and night — their primary hunting hours are spent in the dark. The study shows cats use cause and logic regarding noise to determine the presence of invisible objects.

Feline hearing

Dogs have a fantastic sense of smell, but felines possess exceptional hearing ability and beat the canines in the aural department. Although cats have good vision, hearing is their sharper sense. A typical feline’s audible range is 79 kilohertz, or about 10.5 octaves. Human hearing is in the 20 kilohertz range. That means a cat can distinguish the very high-pitched sounds made by rodents, inaudible to the human ear. He can tell the difference between similar ultrasonic sounds several yards away.

Feline ears have 22 muscles in the outer ear, or pinna. Consisting of cartilage and covered with hair, the pinna is designed to catch sound waves, sending them down the ear canal to the eardrum. You’ve certainly noticed that your cat can move his ears separately, and often communicates his emotional state via the ears.

Deafness

Does this mean a deaf or hard-of-hearing cat can’t hunt? Not necessarily, although he’s unlikely to perform this task well. In an area where prey is abundant, the deaf cat may still catch mice or other animals. It also depends on prey drive — there are some cats that really enjoy hunting and will pursue it enthusiastically even if they aren’t particularly successful. Of course, deaf cats really belong indoors, as the outside world is too dangerous for them.

Do try this at home

The Kyoto University experiment is one that you can try to replicate at home with your own kitties. The Kyoto University team used metal balls as items in the opaque containers. You can use anything that rattles, but consider expanding the experiment. Along with ordinary rattling items, switch to toy mice or similar objects resembling prey.  See if your cats show more interest in prey-like pieces than other noisy articles.

In simple terms, cats understand an action leads to a reaction. Researchers still don’t know “what cats see in their mind’s eye when they pick up noises,” so further study is necessary.

—Jane Meggitt